Disyllable

Quick meaning: Disyllable is a noun meaning A word comprising two syllables.

Meaning

A word comprising two syllables.

Example Sentences

He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.

Word Forms

• disyllables
• dissyllable

Synonyms for disyllable

Depending on context, synonyms include duosyllable, dissyllable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dissyllable, duosyllable, hyperdisyllable, disyllabicity, polysyllable, polysyllabic.

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